On 11/3/06 1:21 PM, "Devin Asay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my case, I have dozens of example stacks that I have created over > the years for my classes, none of which were written with the idea > that they would someday be called from a web server. Now that I'm > starting to do that, I don't really want to rewrite them all. So what > I'm really asking is, is there a way to examine these stacks from the > calling stack or standalone, check to see whether the default folder > is set anywhere in the stack, then override the 'set the > defaultFolder' so that the stack looks at the web server for external > files, instead of in the relative file path as normally determined by > the defaultFolder property. > > I can't think of a simple way to do it. I don't think there is an easy way to do it by a simple override. Of course, with your power and influence, you could make it an assignment for your students to modify the scripts :-) seriously... To find the stack files that contain the word "defaultFolder" I would use the batch search in BBEdit, thus getting a short list of those stacks that need to be updated. This works because the scripting is visible to a word processor You can always get and set the script of objects. on openstack insert the script of this card into back --always available now put "http://server.com/folderA/folderB/"; into newString repeat with lnNum = 1 to the number of lines in fld oldStkList go stack url ("http://etc.com/"&; line lnNum of fld oldStkList doScanAndReplaceDefaultF --located in the card script=>back end repeat put the script of this stack into oldScript put 0 into pos --simple ----- replace "defaultFolder" with newString in oldScript set the script of this stack to oldScript save this stack --more complex logic put 1 into pos repeat until pos = 0 put lineoffset("defaultFolder", oldScript) into pos put line 1 to pos-1 of oldScript into preLines put line pos of oldScript into currLine --decide if replace is the right thing to do replace "defaultFolder" with newString in currLine put cr & preLines & cr & currLine after newScript delete line 1 to pos of oldScript end repeat set the script of this stack to newScript save this stack Depending on where the scripting is located...................... script of this stack repeat with gg = 1 to the number of groups repeat with dd = 1 to the number of cards repeat with cc = 1 to the number of controls if the long name of control x contains "card" then --it is a card control if the long name of control x contains "group" then --it is a bg control Hope this gives you some ideas. Jim Ault _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
